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The Robert E. Lee Won with Sturgis Coal

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Sturgis, Kentucky.
Nearby coal fields supplied fuel to power steamboat Robert E. Lee in race against the Natchez, 1870. Greatest race in river history began in New Orleans and ended at St. Louis. Robert E. Lee won the championship of . . .

(Natural Resources • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Historic Educational Site

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Princeton, Kentucky.
Six educational institutions have flourished here since 1860. Local citizens gave $20,000 and Dr. T.L. McNary six acres to establish Princeton College, 1860-80. Youth also served by Princeton Collegiate Inst., 1880-1911; . . .

(Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fredonia

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Fredonia, Kentucky.
Town founded 1835 as a voting precinct. Established between Princeton and Salem stage stops, it was first called Midway; name changed to Fredonia two years later. In 1887, the Ohio Valley Railroad ran one-half mile west of . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Casa de Visitas

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, Mexico.
Casa de Visitas Es un bello inmueble de cantera rosa que data de finales del siglo XVIII, su estilo arquitectónico es barroco y fue construido por don Juan Mercado. La planta arquitectónica de esta edificación tiene forma . . .

(Colonial Era • Man-Made Features • Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Church of the Tercera Orden

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, Mexico.
Templo de la Tercera Orden El templo de la Tercera Orden Franciscana data del año 1755, es la segunda edificación religiosa más antigua después de la Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. Construido en dos estilos . . .

(Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • Man-Made Features • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cumberland Presbyterian College

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Princeton, Kentucky.
Site of college founded March, 1826, by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. First president was Rev. F. R. Cossitt. School opened with six students on some 500 acres of land bought for $6,000. A manual-labor school, students . . .

(Churches & Religion • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Beaumont-la-Ronce et Anse de Nouzilly

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near Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec.
Certificat de désignation toponymique commémorative La Commission de toponymie, lors de sa réunion du vingt-neuf mars mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-neuf, a officialisé les toponymes Beaumont-la-Ronce et Anse de Nouzilly . . .

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Unknown Insurgent Monument

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, Mexico.
Monumento al Insurgente Desconocido Bajo la Presidencia de Francisco Salgado, Presidente de la H. Junta de Administración Civil de Dolores Hidalgo, se cambian los nombres de las calles y el Jardín "Ocampo" pasa a ser Jardín . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Man-Made Features • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Parish of the Asunción

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, Mexico.
Parroquia de la Asunción La construcción de este inmueble data de 1875 a iniciativa del cura José María Gómez para rendir culto a una virgen cuya iconografia es de origen francés, La Saleta. El baluarte neogótico de la torre . . .

(Churches & Religion • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Big Hole National Battlefield Monument

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near Wisdom, Montana.
(Inscriptions are found on three sides of this monument.) On This Field 17 officers and 133 enlisted men of the 7th U.S. Infantry under its Colonel Bvt. Major General John Gibbon with 8 other soldiers and 36 citizens . . .

(Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Preacher to Pioneers

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Princeton, Kentucky.
Bishop Asbury named two itinerant Methodist preachers to Kentucky in 1786. One, Rev. Benjamin Ogden, had dedicated himself to religion after the Revolution. He preached in what is now Ky. and Tenn. area. While inspiring . . .

(Churches & Religion • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Shandy Hall (Princeton)

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Princeton, Kentucky.
Shandy Hall, two-story stone home built on Bluff above Big Spring, built by William Prince on his 200-acre survey made in 1798. Prince, a Rev. War veteran from S.C., began town on waters of Eddy Creek. In 1817, Princetown . . .

(Notable Buildings • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Shandy Hall (Princeton)

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Princeton, Kentucky.
Shandy Hall, two-story stone home built on Bluff above Big Spring, built by William Prince on his 200-acre survey made in 1798. Prince, a Rev. War veteran from S.C., began town on waters of Eddy Creek. In 1817, Princetown . . .

(Notable Buildings • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"El Socorrito" Temple

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, Mexico.
Siendo Capellán de este Templo “El Socorrito,” El Sr. Pbro. José Tranquilino Anaya y apoyando sincera y desinteresadamente un comité “Pro-reconstrucción” y todos los vecinos se reconstruyó el Templo y anexos inciando el 8 de . . .

(Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Veterans Memorial

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Laflin, Pennsylvania.
"This memorial is dedicated to all who served for the glory of God and Country from Laflin Borough"

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

War Memorial

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Laflin, Pennsylvania.
This plaque honors the veterans who risked their lives in the line of battle. Their patriotism will never be forgotten. Dedicated by Sean Thomas, Troop 43

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • War, 2nd Iraq • War, Afghanistan) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Historique du phare du Pilier de Pierre

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near Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec.
Caractéristiques de l'île du Pilier de Pierre L'île du Pilier de Pierre mesure 546 m par 61 m. Elle est située à 4,9 km de la côte. 1 Sur les premières cartes marines britanniques, cet îlot rocheux s'appelait South Pilar . . .

(Communications • Man-Made Features • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Plymouth RAF Monument

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, United Kingdom.
Royal Air Force Commonwealth & Allied Air Forces 1939 – 1945 Tribute To All Men and Women of Great Britain Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand Rhodesia and South Africa. Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, . . .

(War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Norrington's Water Fountain

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, United Kingdom.
Presented to the Town of Plymouth by Charles Norrington Of Abbotsfield In Memory of His Wife Marianne Norrington 1891 “Thirsty And Ye Gave Me Drink”

(Women) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Laboratory on the Hoe

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, United Kingdom.
The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) The CPR was designed by Alister Hardy, a fisheries biologist, in the late-1920s. The device is towed off the back of a ship in order to record variations in the abundance and . . .

(Environment • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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